Playing for Change

Russell Field is an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba.

‘This is an enjoyable, well written book…. It is a book worth reading by anyone with a serious interest in sport, the roles that it plays in society and the roles that it could conceivably play.’- Alan Bairner (Idrottsforum: Nordic Sport Science Forum, 28 September 2016) ‘Researchers will find prime reading for sport and physical culture studies and related philosophies of knowledge, and other readers will welcome the history of sport, recreation, and the body.’- PearlAnn Reichwein (BC Studies vol 194:2017)

• Introduction - For Jets and Country: A Reminder of How Sport MattersRussell Field, University of ManitobaPart I: Global promises: The Contested Terrain of International Sport1. Sport, Development and the Challenge of SlumsRichard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University2. The New ‘Culture Wars’: The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Public Protest, and the Politics of ResistanceRussell Field, University of Manitoba3. Sochi 2014: The Russian Oligarchy and Winter Games FundingHart Cantelon, Professor Emeritus, University of Lethbridge, and James Riordan, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey4. The Dialectic of Modern, High-Performance Sport: Returning to Dubin to Move ForwardRob Beamish, Queen’s UniversityPart II: Continental divides: Revisiting the Shaping of Sport in North America5. The 1904 Chicago-St. Louis Transition and the Social Structuration of the American Olympic MovementJohn J. MacAloon, The University of Chicago6. Two-Way Hockey: Selling Canada’s Game in America, 1885-1935Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire7. Continentalization and America’s Contested Baseball Hegemony: the Postwar Challenge to Major League Baseball in Mexico, Quebec and the Caribbean, 1945-1955Colin Howell, Saint Mary’s UniversityPart III: Local contours: Debating Access to Physical Activity in Canadian Communities8. Change Rooms and Change Agents: The Struggle against Barriers to Opportunities for Physical Activity and Sport in Ethnocultural Communities in TorontoParissa Safai, York University9. Political Ecology, Discourse and Shared-use Trail Development in Nova Scotia: Braking for or Breaking the Environment?Robert Pitter and Glyn Bissix, Acadia University10. Intertwining Histories, Enhancing Strengths: Sport and Recreation Services in the Northwest Territories, 1962-2000Victoria Paraschak, University of WindsorPart IV: Shifting Ground: Reconsidering the Role of the Public Intellectual in Sport11. ‘Can you do this for my neighbourhood?’: Public Sport History, the Environment, and Community in an Industrial CityNancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University12. Where History meets Biography: Toward a Public Sociology of SportPeter Donnelly and Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto13. ‘Shadow Disciplines’ or A Place for ‘Post-Disciplinary Liaisons’ in the North American Research University: What are we to do with Physical Cultural Studies?Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia14. Bruce Kidd, Sport History, and Social EmancipationDouglas Booth, University of Otago